Leibniz vs Locke/Hobbes
“The high level philosophical, scientific, and cultural warfare between these two concepts of man, which ultimately brought into being this first successful Republic, has almost been obliterated from the common knowledge of our citizens today.”
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“As we shall see, our founding documents were based on the higher philosophical concept of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, drawn from Gottfried Leibniz, rather than the idea of Life, Liberty and Property, drawn from John Locke.
These two irreconcilable concepts of Man, the Hobbesian view of Man as an unreasoning Beast vs. the Leibnizian view of Man as Imago Viva Dei, have defined the fight for our Republic from its inception to the present.”